Below is the planned list of talks for 2024.
A link to previous talks is here: Probus talks 1997-2023
Date | Talk | Speaker |
05-Jan-24 | Radio Classic Signature Tunes | Malcolm Lewis |
12-Jan-24 | Coffee Morning. The life and works of Henry Purcell | Tim Brain |
19-Jan-24 | What is Happening to America? | Ron Jeffrey |
26-Jan-24 | AGM | |
02-Feb-24 | Makedo and Bodgeit! (tractor restoration) | Alan Ward |
09-Feb-24 | Life of a Galley Slave | George North |
16-Feb-24 | Elan Valley | Mike Spittle |
23-Feb-24 | History of Limericks | Mike Aggleton |
01-Mar-24 | Coventry, Alvis and the Iron Lung | Adrian Padfield |
08-Mar-24 | Coffee morning. Marie Claire: Resistance Heroine | Peter Seymour |
15-Mar-24 | Lost Railway journeys in Gloucestershire | David Aldred |
22-Mar-24 | The Rocky Mountains of North America | Geoff King |
29-Mar-24 | Good Friday – no meeting | |
5-Apr-24 | Conservation and Zoos | Brian Bertram |
12-Apr-24 | History of Meccano | Steve Briancourt |
19 Apr 2024 | Spring Lunch – RAU | |
26 Apr 2024 | Restoration of Cotswold Canals | Barney Bruce |
3 May 2024 | Futurists and Futurology | Pete Wright |
10 May 2024 | Flog it!- antiques & auctioneering | Peter Ashburner |
17 May 2024 | Woodchester Mansion | Dr Liz Davenport |
24 May 2024 | It’s in the Blood | Michael Colley |
31 May 2024 | Defences of Southern England and West Country in WW2 | Bill King |
7 June 2024 | Battle of Waterloo | Sally Ferrers |
14 June 2024 | Cirencester Waterways | John Tiffney |
21 June 2024 |
Mobile phone forensics & high tech witness work |
Tony Sykes |
28 June 2024 |
Serving Queen and Country in Zimbabwe 1991-3 |
Brian Hinton |
5 July 2024 |
Garden party | |
12 July 2024 |
Strong and Steady |
Lindsey Johnson (NHS) |
19 July 2024 |
The missing Link” – A417 at the Air Balloon |
Carolyne Ferguson |
26 July 2024 | If it can go wrong, it will! | Michael Woods |
2 Aug 2024 | Berlin Airlift | Wg Cdr Paul Shepherd |
9 Aug 2024 | Rudyard Kipling | Mike Bottomley |
16 Aug 2024 | Iceland | Mike Spittle |
23 Aug 2024 | 1346: Crécy | Dr Gillian White |
30-Aug-24 | I never expected that! RAF life 1966-2001 | Gp Capt Stan Hickey |
06-Sep-24 | The life and Times of Sir William Stanier – Railwayman Extraordinaire | Geoff King |
13-Sep-24 | Cirencester Pubs, Past & Present | John Tiffney |
20-Sep-24 | Auto Biography – A Life in Ten Cars | Steve Wigzell |
27-Sep-24 | The Queens at War | Douglas Butler |
04-Oct-24 | A Personal and Professional Journey in Local Government | Andrew Tubb |
11-Oct-24 | To Mars via Kazakhstan Beagle2, lost on Mars but found 11 years later (International Space Week) | Terry Ransome |
18-Oct-24 |
Coffee Morning – |
David Rose |
25-Oct-24 | Cirencester Icons | Malcolm Lewis & Alexander Nisbet |
01-Nov-24 | t.b.a | |
08-Nov-24 | Sailing the Dream Part II | Peter Seymour |
15-Nov-24 | Katherine Parr, Gloucestershire’s Queen | Mike Bottomley |
22-Nov-24 | Bureaucracy gets in the way – an update on church projects | Rev Canon Graham Morris |
29-Nov-24 | How is Boeing finding the going? | Ron Jeffrey |
06-Dec-24 | Xmas lunch | |
13-Dec-24 |
Port | John Lamus |
20-Dec-24 |
Quiz | Andy Bernard |